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Kee Thuan Chye (born May 25 1954 in Penang, Malaysia) is a noted Malaysian dramatist, poet and journalist.
Kee graduated from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1976 and received his masters in drama from England’s Essex University in 1988. Kee served as literary editor and occasional film reviewer for the New Straits Times, arts columnist for Business Times, theater columnist for New Sunday Times, and is now associate editor in charge of the English column, Mind Our English for The Star (Malaysia). His Sunday Star column Playing The Fool began in April 2001 and ran for only two installments until it was cancelled. Other publications featuring his articles and reviews include Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Asia Magazine.
Kee has had poetry published Malaysian national newspapers, and in local and international journals such as Masakini, Pacific Quarterly Moana, Southeast Asian Review of English, Sands and Coral, Solidarity, Ideya, Ariel, Kunapipi, and Focus. Two of Kee's plays have been featured in at UK Festivals. "The Big Purge" was read at the Soho Theatre in 2005, as part of Typhoon 4, the International East Asian Playreading Festival. "The Swordfish, then The Concubine" was shortlisted at the 21st International Playwrighting Festival 2006.
Filmography
Plays
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1974 | Oh, But I Don't Want to Go, Oh, But I Have to... |
| 1977 | Eyeballs, Leper, and a Very Dead Spider |
| 1974 | The Situation of the Man who Stabbed a Dummy or a Woman and was Disarmed by the Members of the Club for a Reason Yet Obscure, If There Was One |
| 1988 | The Big Purge |
| 1987 | 1984 Here and Now |
| 1994 | We Could **** You Mr. Birch |
Films
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Ah Lok Kafe: The Movie | Char Koay Teow |
| 2001 | Snipers | Steve's Father |
| 2000 | Lips to Lips | Scrabble Man |
| 1999 | Anna and the King | Second Judge |
| Entrapment | Trader #1 |
2007 in film 2007 ''1957 Hati Malaya'' as Tan Cheng Lock
Television
- Marco Polo (2006) as Chief Map Maker
- Perceptions (2004) as Victor Wong
- Each Other (2002) as Ronnie Ng
- Kopitiam (2002) as Kok Hui (guest appearance)
- The Marriage Factor (2002) as Daddy
- Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd (2001) as Lim Pek Kong (guest appearance)
- Kopitiam (1999) as Major Lim (guest appearance)
- Maria (1984)
- Bailey's Bird (1977) as Ming Ho (guest appearance)
External links
- Kee Thuan Chye at IMDb
- Interview in The Sun
- Part 1 of interview with Malaysiakini columnist Helen Ang
- part 2 of Malaysiakini interview
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